Comment 106044

By Crispy (registered) | Posted November 07, 2014 at 18:42:04 in reply to Comment 106041

Actually the engineer concluded that King would have to be regraded and homes would still have to be removed. "The complete removal of the King Street overpass and reintroduction of an at grade intersection would have required the removal of several homes, extensive re-grading of King St. and would have required a full Environmental Assessment study to be undertaken."

Again, i'm not an engineer and my calculation was rudimentary, however based on his profession opinion and response I have no doubts that changing this to an at grade intersection would cost much more than replacing the bridge. Plus the need to expropriate homes makes this a nonstarter.

I've lived in Hamilton my entire life and I do not remember this intersection ever being at grade. When was it changed? Do you have a link to photos? I'd be interested to see what that looked like.

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